Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in the Early Childhood ...

Feature Articles 37 Educating Young children - Learning and teaching in the Early Childhood years Vol 17, No 2, 2011 Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in the Early Childhood CurriculumMelinda MillerMelinda Miller is a lecturer in the School of Early Childhood at QUT. Her research, teaching and publication interests include culture studies, Indigenous studies, sustainability education and professional development for Early Childhood educatorsEarly Childhood curriculum frameworks place strong emphasis on the need for educators to build cultural competence. In the Australian context, a key component of this work relates to competencies with acknowledging and responding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and communities. Despite emphasis on the importance of this work, the how and why of Embedding Indigenous Perspectives continues to raise concerns for many non- Indigenous educators. Educators may question their approach, knowledge base, and the right to teach about cultural ways of being, knowing and that are different to their own Perspectives (see Lampert, 2005).

Feature Articles 38 Educating Young Children - Learning and teaching in the early childhood years Vol 17, No 2, 2011 understand about historical and contemporary circumstances for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia. A substantive

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